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17 February 2021
The film 'Dear Comrades', produced by the Russian film-maker Andrei Konchalevsky, came out last year and won the Special Jury Prize at the 2020 Venice Film Festival.
19 August 2020
80th anniversary of Leon Trotsky's assassination
A revolutionary whose ideas and methods retain their validity
9 October 2019
Chinese revolution of 1944-49: 'The second greatest event in human history'
On 1 October 1949 the leader of the Stalinist Chinese Communist Party (CCP), Mao Zedong, declared the formation of the People's Republic of China.
6 March 2019
Leon Trotsky's struggle against Stalinism
Ninety years ago this January, Leon Trotsky was exiled from the Soviet Union. Joseph Stalin and his increasingly powerful bureaucracy gave the command.
25 October 2017
Well-deserved ridicule of Stalinism is impressive, funny but flawed
Film - The Death of Stalin: Fans of The Thick of It's lampooning of New Labour will notice parallels. The Stalinists, like the Blairites, are egotistical buffoons, completely isolated from the working class
18 October 2017
October 1917 reviews: 'More bright than any heaven'
The October revolution showed countless millions that workers have the power to stop exploitation and oppression. It's no surprise these events inspired marvellous documentary and artistic works. The Socialist revisits some of the classic accounts of 1917 - and comments on some more recent efforts to smear it...
26 July 2017
Russia 1917: how art helped make the revolution
Revolution in Russia swept away the dictatorial rule of the Tsar in February 1917. Then in October, led by the Bolshevik Party, a second revolution set up the world's first workers' state
6 July 2017
Lessons from the Russian revolution for LGBT+ struggle today
When the Soviet Criminal Code was established in 1922, male homosexuality was not included as a criminal act
1 March 2017
Lessons of Russia 1917 for women's struggle today
The 1917 Russian revolution was a momentous moment in working class history, in which women played a pivotal and active role
22 February 2017
February revolution 1917 - what lessons for today?
The February 1917 revolution in Russia marked the beginning of the socialist revolution later that year
15 February 2017
No, Trumpism is nothing like Leninism
Steve Bannon, investment banker and chief strategist to US president Donald Trump, once called himself "a Leninist"!
8 February 2017
Smearing socialism by attacking the arts
The Russian revolution a hundred years ago is still a terrifying calamity - for billionaire thieves, warmongers and their political defenders. But for the working class, it meant a boom in living standards, freedom and imagination.
8 February 2017
Tense, lively prologue to events which changed the world
Non-fiction review: Lenin on the Train: When the February revolution broke out in Russia in 1917 and the Tsar was overthrown, Vladimir Lenin was living in exile in Switzerland.
11 January 2017
Book review: Spy drama gives insight into capitalist coup plot
Fiction review: A Very British Ending: Rarely does a political spy novel contain so much historical fact, written in such a gripping manner as Edward Wilson's 'A Very British Ending'.
28 September 2016
Cable Street: When workers united and fought the fascist threat at Cable Street
This month marks the 80th anniversary of what has gone down in history as the Battle of Cable Street. On 4 October 1936 thousands of workers across the East End of London rose up to prevent a march through their areas by the uniformed thugs of Oswald Mosley's fascists.
27 September 2016
Review by Socialist Party general secretary Peter Taaffe of "The Life and Death of Leon Trotsky", published in the latest issue of Socialism Today.
Leon Trotsky
11 August 2016
Trotskyism has been in the news since Tom Watson, deputy leader of the Labour Party, accused some new members of the Labour Party of being supporters of Trotsky.
28 June 2016
The degeneration of the Soviet Union into a brutal dictatorship - albeit one based on a distorted form of planned economy - has been used to argue that socialism is doomed to failure...
24 February 2016
Khrushchev: the Stalinist who denounced Stalin
60 years ago, at the 20th conference of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union on 25 February 1956, first secretary Nikita Khrushchev denounced the dictatorial crimes of Joseph Stalin who had died in 1953.
2 September 2015
Zimmerwald Conference 1915: lessons for the socialist movement
100 years ago, during the carnage of World War One, a small number of socialist delegates assembled at an anti-war conference in Zimmerwald, Switzerland.
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